Poultry-feeder.



F. ENDS, JR. IBOULTRY FEEDER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. 1909,

Patented Mar.22,1910.

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FRANK ENDS, JR,, bF-NORWICEOONNECTIQUT, essienonjro noRwicnE-Auiromnmc:

' FEEDER 00., or NORWICH, CONNECTICUT,-A FIRM.

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To ailwhom it maymonceriu 1- 1 .Bei it known that I, FRANK Enos, Jr, a citiz'en of the ,YUnited States, residing at .Norwich, in the county of New-London and i State-of Connecticut, have invented anew and'useful Improvementin PoultryFeeders, of which the following a specification, reference bein'gfihad to the accompanying drawings, o 10, The object of thisinventi'on" is to provide- 'a-sim le,"efiective,' and reasonably cheap device tor feeding grains, dry mash etc;, to; y-poultry'; said device ,being of suchconstruc- ''tion that" the 'fowls are caused to exercise 15 constantly and freely by reaj son of their'ef more fully, hereinafter; I r In. order to explain my said invention clearly I have provided thefaccompanying" orts to obtainthefeed, as shall explain Figure'l isanelevation of a feeder em body ng my; resent improved 'feeder illus trat ing, also t emannerm which it is-o'perated'by the fowls. Fig.2 is'a' relatively en:

lar d, central,vertical,---sectional view of sai ,feeder. Fi 3.;shows plan and edge views or. a =nove form of agitatorvalve' which I employ at'the delivery throat of the hopper 111- which the supply of feed is Ystored. Figft'is an underside view of-a'n adjustable-cutoff plate by means of which I the device-may be madeto feed coarse or fine grains. l

Referring to these drawings, the reference numeral 10 indicates va cylindrical-hopper,

adapted to receive a supply of grain or other? feed, said hopper being supported on sub-' stantial legs 11. The bottom'of said hopper" is formed as an inverted,-truncated,' cone 12 in whose otherwise open, lower, 'end'portion is fixed a disk 13 having a plurality of openings l4=, and mounted immediately below the disk 13 is a similar perforated disk 15 having a radial handle 16 bym'eans of which the said disk 15 may be'partially rotated to enlarge or reduce the coincidentopenings in,

the d1sks13 and 15 and thus provide for the delivery of coarse or fine feed. Immediately below the hopper, and also su ported by the less 11, is a-- cone 1? u on which the feed-falls as it drops from'the escribed delivery openings and by means of-which cone the feed is scattered radially, as is indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

- Specificatipn-ofiett ersPatent;

tical rod which extends upwardthroug'h'the of disks 15-13, and vhas secured to its up? -vid:ed,;as here shown, with pins"20,-,.on .its'

as a bait to attract and engage the attention that the grain cannot pass "outwardly through said meshes, but the eHorts of the {owls as the peek at said grain, operate to I partially. ro ate the bait head and-the con .nected'rod 18and disk 19, th-us agitating -the.- 'gr'ains in the hopper "10 andcausing ithe perforations indisks' 13- and-15 onto 1:. e

are-picked b the ex ectant fowls; So soon asth-e f thus fgi islod ed has been *baituntil another suppl of grains showers down around. themfrom t e hopper and cone.

'sirable for the reasons 1 that the fowl's' arecompelled to work :(exercise) for their food,

and they cannot gorge themselves as they directly uponthe ground in large quantities. Havlng' .Ithus described my invention I .blaim: j r

poultryfeeder' comprising a. hopper having a relatively small opening at its base, a cap having circularly arranged openings 'for'closin' said opening, acut-ofi' slide for ranged openings. 7 v o FRANK ENOS, JR.

Witnesses:

FRANK ALLEN, I I Mannnmn D. R'rrcinn.

Patented Mar."22,; 1910. Application 'fileaaiamh b-,-19 09. Serialat. 484,677.

The vreference numera'l18 denotes a: ver:

them ,to'rattle downward through the holes i in said disk- 19 (or around the ed e of said I disk) and finally passadow nward throu h eaten by the-'fowls they imme iately return to, the bait head 21 and again peek at. said 'My' described device is particularly d.e-'

said circu arly' arranged openings, a perfocenter of the cone 12 and through the center per-end a perforated disk 19' which is pro- {under face, whi ch rest upon the fixed disk 13; Y Secured tothe lower end of the rod 18 is; a transverse head 21 fo'rmed of wire screen which is filled with grains and'serves '65 of the fowls. The meshes of the wire screen of the bait-head 21,1however, are so small 1 cone l2, whence they ran to the ground and v {are wont to do when the grains'are thrown 

